Well, we made it onto gnu-friends.org, lwn.net, newsforge.com, and slashdot.org. Front page of the first two, and somewhere on the others.
We've been visited by 194 unique IPs and their still coming in.
The first IFSO meeting will be this thursday, all details the same as our previous meetings: http://ifso.info/about.html (all welcome, no membership or notice required)
Todo : * Get someone to draw the logo * Get final paper work done for bank account and ifso.ie domain * Get back to work on the patents issues (I think I've said that before) * Agree on a press release * Talk about an FS in education project (or was it charities? Glenn?) * Start accepting memberships[0] (committee at a minimum. yes?) * Take some photos[1] (can anyone bring a digital camera?) * Talk about the first annual IFSO conference * Everything else * plus the usual editor, language, desktop, and mua wars
[0] We should have a bank account on friday or monday, so I guess these can stay in Glenns pocket until then? We need a receipt book.
[1] some mugshots and/or a photo of a meeting would make IFSO look a bit more real and a bit more human, and new folk could recognise us for meetings.
...and GNU Robots: a brilliant programming game I found. So good that I have to mention it somewhere. package 'gnurobots' on Debian, and I think on RedHat also, and probably most/all distros.
You write a program in scheme (not complex), the little robot starts off in a maze and runs your program. There are baddies, food, and prizes. The game isn't elaborate, but it's brilliant and addictive. http://www.gnu.org/software/robots/
Read the docs, it's all dead simple. My current robot is at: http://www.compsoc.com/~coriordan/software/fourbot.scm but he's not very good, so I'll bin him soon and write a mapper bot.
On , January 6, 2004 at 08:50 +0000, Ciaran O'Riordan wrote:
Well, we made it onto gnu-friends.org, lwn.net, newsforge.com, and slashdot.org. Front page of the first two, and somewhere on the others.
This is excellent, well done Ciaran. I've also seen links at a couple of other places (linux.ie, etc).
- Talk about an FS in education project (or was it charities? Glenn?)
There was interest in both - right now there seem to be more people interested in working with schools.
- Start accepting memberships[0] (committee at a minimum. yes?)
The committee are the starter members - we can accept new members immediately.
- Take some photos[1] (can anyone bring a digital camera?)
I'll bring my camera.
yeh, first IFSO meeting tonight: http://ifso.info/about.html
I got a mail from a Sunday Tribune journalist yesterday with a load of questions, so we might get a mention there. (not a dedicated article, just questions for another article.)
I'll make some general questions and answers based on his questions, and add them to the IFSO FAQ, probably tomorrow. It might be best to treat the FAQ has a gathering point for journalist-level questions.
Glenn Strong Glenn.Strong@cs.tcd.ie writes:
On , January 6, 2004 at 08:50 +0000, Ciaran O'Riordan wrote:
Well, we made it onto gnu-friends.org, lwn.net, newsforge.com, and slashdot.org. Front page of the first two, and somewhere on the others.
This is excellent, well done Ciaran. I've also seen links at a couple of other places (linux.ie, etc).
And well done other people. My slashdot submission was rejected but Aidans got through. www.affs.org.uk also mentioned us on their front page. The site has now seen 424 unique IPs, pretty cool, and the fsfe-ie list is up to 61 subscribers.
- Start accepting memberships[0] (committee at a minimum. yes?)
The committee are the starter members - we can accept new members immediately.
I'll get a receipt book, or something, and'll bring my 20.
The IFSO constitution is now on the site, thanks to Glenn.
And well done other people. My slashdot submission was rejected but Aidans got through.
Read the comments unmoderated. Nice to see that Irish stereotypes are alive and well and Slashdot still has a fine population of morons.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/05/217214
Thank the gods for moderation.
adam
Hi,
Ciaran O'Riordan wrote:
I got a mail from a Sunday Tribune journalist yesterday with a load of questions, ...
... I'll make some general questions and answers based on his questions, and add them to the IFSO FAQ, probably tomorrow. It might be best to treat the FAQ has a gathering point for journalist-level questions.
I think this would be really useful. Journalists are one audience that need addressing. May be the /faq/ section could be expanded in time to cover the other audiences identified at http://ifso.info/free-sw.html#movement. viz:
* law makers, * software users - individuals, - governments, - schools, - universities, - businesses.
These categories somewhat overlap those suggested by Malcolm in the [Copyright and the EUCD] thread; I've put them below for reference:
On 08/12/03 16:40 Malcolm wrote:
- consumer
- society
- economy
- academia
- libraries
- etc
-- Adam M